Acquisition of nominal and verbal number agreement in Brazilian Portuguese
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Abstract
This study aims to investigate the acquisition of number agreement by Brazilian children. Since there is variation in expressing number agreement in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), it seeks to analyze the impact of linguistic variation on language acquisition. To this end, an experimental study was carried out. An elicited production task was conducted with monolingual children from three to five years of age acquiring BP, aiming to investigate how they produce number agreement in nominal elements and in verbs. Following Yang’s (2002) proposal, I suggest that the variation found in participants’ productions for the noun phrase could concern the acquisition of two grammars, with parameters set differently. On the other hand, the results found for verbal agreement seem to suggest that the variation observed in child production is a reflection of children’s linguistic development process.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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